Prompt Polish: free game to learn to write better AI prompts

What is Prompt Polish?

A weak prompt sits on the screen, like "Write a birthday message", with three rewrites under it. Pick the one that would get the most useful answer from the assistant, then see which ingredients made it win: a role, the context, the format, the constraints, an example.

Prompt Polish is a free game about writing prompts for chatbots and AI assistants. Each round shows a weak prompt someone typed, like "Write a birthday message" or "Fix my code", and three rewrites. Pick the one that would get the most useful answer before the clock runs out.

After each pick, every rewrite shows which ingredients it has: a role, the context, the format, the constraints and an example. The losing ones say what goes wrong. Early rounds pit a clear prompt against vague ones; later rounds hide subtle traps like contradictions, requests for invented facts and private details pasted in for no reason.

At a glance

Category

Skillz

Difficulty

Medium

Play time

3–5 min

Price

Free, in your browser, sign-up optional

How to play

Read the goal

Each round names what you need and shows the weak prompt someone typed.

Pick the best rewrite

Tap A, B or C (or press 1 to 3) before the clock runs out. Longer isn't always better.

See why it wins

Every rewrite shows its ingredients (role, context, format, constraints, example) and what goes wrong in the others.

Score

100 points per right pick, up to 50 for speed and +10 per right answer in a row (max +50). A wrong pick or the clock costs one of 3 lives.

Scoring

Each right pick scores 100 points, plus up to 50 for answering fast and 10 per right answer in a row (up to +50).

A wrong pick or a timeout costs one of 3 lives and resets the streak. Ten rounds, and the clock gets shorter as the prompts get trickier.

What it trains

Writing prompts

Adding a role, context, format, constraints and an example.

Spotting traps

Contradictions, requests for invented facts and private details.

Clear briefs

Saying what only you know, so the answer fits the first time.

Strategy and tips

Context first

The assistant can't guess who the answer is for, what you have or what happened. Facts beat adjectives.

Name the shape

A list, a table, 3 paragraphs, one question at a time: say how the answer should look.

Watch for contradictions

"Short but include every detail" forces the assistant to break one of the two rules.

Don't ask for what it can't know

Today's prices, exact predictions from one month of data: good prompts ask it to flag what to check instead.

Show, don't describe

One example line of your style does more than "make it sound like our brand".

Why play Prompt Polish?

Most disappointing answers from chatbots come from prompts that leave out what only you know: who it's for, what you have, what the result should look like. Prompt Polish trains the habit of adding a role, context, format, constraints and an example, and of spotting the traps that make an answer worse, in a few minutes of play.

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